Click to look around
- Day
- Day 1
- Time of day
- Day
- Hunger
- HungerSated
- Warmth
- WarmthWarm
- Frames per second
- – FPS
Orc
- Health
- 20/20
Target
- Health
- 0/0
Quest L
Clan
Lobby Chat
Messages stay only for this visit.
Click lifts a stack and sets it down; right-click splits it.Enter lifts and Alt+Enter places one.
Pack
In hand
Build
Place a workbench in the valley to use learned recipes.
On your back
Look for something broken high on the mountains.
Click a piece to build now. Drag it to a shortcut below, or chooseAssign then press 1–8.
Craft Order
Choose a recipe.
Quantity
Choose a recipe to craft.
Waypoint
Double-click the map, or track a marked place, to light the way there.
Marked places
Nothing marked yet. Right-click anywhere on the map to name a place.
RuinsTreesRockFireBedSoilMarksQuestWaypointClan goalClanmatesYou
Drag panScroll zoomDouble-click waypointRight-click markArrows + − F keys
Nothing has been asked of you yet. Go and look at the body outside the ruins.
Everything here rises by doing it. There is nothing to spend.
Three points, earned by the feats below — exactly enough for the whole row. Every ability needs the tier before it.
Passives
Feats
Controls
- WASD
- Move where the camera looks
- Shift
- Sprint
- Space
- Jump
- Mouse
- Look. Click the valley to take the mouse; Esc gives it back
- Right Drag
- Look while the mouse is free
- ←→↑↓
- Look around
- Wheel
- Zoom the camera
- Left Click / Enter
- Swing. Hold to keep swinging; the third swing in a row is an overhead blow
- Right Click / C
- Roll clear of an attack
- Middle Click / R
- Lock on to an enemy, or recentre the camera
- E
- Use
- 1–90
- Use that action bar slot
- Q
- Drop 1 held item
- Shift+Q
- Drop held stack
- Y
- Yell
- 1–8
- Select build shortcut while building
- []
- Change build page
- Wheel
- Rotate build preview while building
- Ctrl
- Hold for world-grid snap
- F
- Toggle dismantling
- I
- Pack
- K
- Skills
- T
- Combat masteries
- M
- Map
- L
- Quests
- Esc
- Settings, or close what is open
Sound
Valley ambience, cheerful music, and action sounds play after your first interaction.
Camera
The mouse always owns the view. With follow on, the camera also swings gently after your orc once you have left the mouse alone.
Graphics
Low trims the far forest and drops the finer shadow work — reach for it if the valley starts to stutter.
A running count of how the valley is drawing, kept beside the day count.
Lobby Server
Code
Open — new members may join until all 20 places are filled.
Players
Closing ends this lobby for everyone. It cannot be reopened.
Save
Saved on this browser. Link your email to sync it across devices.
Link Email to SyncThis browser and your account both have a valley. Choose which one should become your saved valley everywhere.
This valley
Everything you have built is kept in this browser and, after linking an email, in your cloud save. Starting again clears both.
You wake at full health with every item you carried and a brief moment of protection.
Orc Life is about keeping a home in a hard valley, and keeping it is messy.
- Blood and goreEvery landed blow sprays blood, and a kill bursts the body — played completely straight.
- Fantasy combatBoars, raiders and, in a shared valley, other orcs will fight you.
- Online chatLobby chat is between players and is not moderated.
Our own age advice. No ratings board has classified this game.
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A homestead, one played day at a time.
The ruins, a valley, and nothing in your hands yet.
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